Last Friday, I decided that it was time to take a break from Facebook...but I didn't take much of a break. I deleted the app from my phone and x'd out the tab on my computer, but about twice a day these last couple days, I would check my facebook just to see...what is going on out there.
It was a short time, but I think I have figured out that it is not facebook I am needing a break from....it is the constant notifications on my phone. Much like Pavlov's dogs, when my phone dings, I stop what I am doing and have to look at it (I might even drool a little). I find myself CONSTANTLY looking at my phone. It is really ridiculous.
You know what I mean...a friend of yours has posted a sad post....a need for prayer. You want her to know you are praying for her, so you leave a comment: "praying for you". What follows is the 20 other commentors also relaying their devotion to pray. This is only one example.
There is also the friend who posts multiple posts an hour. It's not that I am not interested in the posts...quite the opposite....but I'd rather just sit down to my computer a couple times a day and get the updates then....
Whether it is a chronic poster, or multiple comments on a post I have commented on, or what have you...I find myself constantly looking at my phone. It's distracting. I could be in the middle of a deep conversation with my daughter...or my son could be showing me his latest Lego creation...or Matt telling me something about work...and my phone is going off.
No...it is not an issue with needing a break from facebook. I love facebook. It's the constant notifications. So...now I am tweaking facebook....seeing if I can cut out the notifications and be left to check facebook at my convenience. It has worked well these last two days. I looked at my phone this morning (before I reinstalled my facebook app) and the screen was not loaded to the hilt with notifications. It was relieving. I want to have my facebook app...I just do not want to be chained to my phone. I do not want to be that person who constantly has her nose to her phone.
So, there you have it. lol
It was a short time, but I think I have figured out that it is not facebook I am needing a break from....it is the constant notifications on my phone. Much like Pavlov's dogs, when my phone dings, I stop what I am doing and have to look at it (I might even drool a little). I find myself CONSTANTLY looking at my phone. It is really ridiculous.
You know what I mean...a friend of yours has posted a sad post....a need for prayer. You want her to know you are praying for her, so you leave a comment: "praying for you". What follows is the 20 other commentors also relaying their devotion to pray. This is only one example.
There is also the friend who posts multiple posts an hour. It's not that I am not interested in the posts...quite the opposite....but I'd rather just sit down to my computer a couple times a day and get the updates then....
Whether it is a chronic poster, or multiple comments on a post I have commented on, or what have you...I find myself constantly looking at my phone. It's distracting. I could be in the middle of a deep conversation with my daughter...or my son could be showing me his latest Lego creation...or Matt telling me something about work...and my phone is going off.
No...it is not an issue with needing a break from facebook. I love facebook. It's the constant notifications. So...now I am tweaking facebook....seeing if I can cut out the notifications and be left to check facebook at my convenience. It has worked well these last two days. I looked at my phone this morning (before I reinstalled my facebook app) and the screen was not loaded to the hilt with notifications. It was relieving. I want to have my facebook app...I just do not want to be chained to my phone. I do not want to be that person who constantly has her nose to her phone.
So, there you have it. lol
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